Show purebred pure bred ram adds pounds to lamb crop an interesting experiment lias has been conducted by the oklahoma experiment station A purebred pure bred ram was placed with one group of ewes averaging in weight pounds liwes ewes were all on the same kind of pasture and fed the same kind of feeds in the same quantities when the lanias iambs were born from froin the purebred they averaged 89 pounds the scrub ram was placed with the second group of ewes of the same quality and age as the first erst group their weights being in an average of 1017 1047 pounds each these were given the same care is as the first group the lambs when born weighed only 81 pounds although the lambs sired by the purebred pure bred ate no more than those sired by the scrub ram the lambs from the purebred pure bred ram gained faster and weighed 1032 pounds when sold and the lambs from the alie scrub weighed I 1 only 95 pounds the difference in dollars and centi was that the lambs from the purebred pure bred ram brought baroug glit more with no extra cost tor for feed or care |